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    <p>Dear Federico</p>
    <p>Thanks for your detailed response. I would look meet prof.
      Seymour Cahangirov. I actually, have recently joined Bilkent, so
      do no know many people yet. <br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/17/2016 04:41 PM, Federico Iori
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        <div>Hi.<br>
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        <div>In my opinion, I think the approach you chose depends
          strictly from the question you want to answer and after that
          from the the size (number electrons, Number plane wave thou)
          you have.<br>
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        <div>Do you need a full excitonic optical spectrum ? or just a
          RPA spectrum is sufficient for your study?<br>
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        <div>If it is silicon-like and then maybe not too much
          computationally demanding, I think you can use a linear
          response TDDFT as a first step and then move to a more
          sophisticated approach as GW (to calculate not the optic, but
          the screening of your material) + Bethe-Salpeter equation BSE
          to have correctly acces to the excitonic effects in your
          absorption spectra.<br>
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        <div>Of course all the calculations have to be converged wrt
          kpoints, number of Gvectors, number of bands. When increasing
          these parameters wrt their pristine value for your converged
          density in the DFT framework the computational cost will
          increase not linearly.<br>
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        <div>I would suggest you to have a look and to do the tutorial
          with the  Yambo code on a small system as they proposed in
          order to correctly understand what are you doing.<br>
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        <div>Moreover there is the theory to have a look at in order to
          understand the meaning and the effect of the quantities you
          are calculating .<br>
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        <div>I would reccomend especially<br>
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        <div>Onida Reining Rubio Rev Mod Phys 2002 <a
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        <div>as all the others references in the yambo website as well.<br>
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        <div>Moreover, since I notice you are in Bilkent UNiv, try to
          ask  to Seymour Cahangirov from the same univ. I think he can
          address you properly.<br>
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        <div>I hope this could help a bit.<br>
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        <div>With the best<br>
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        <div>Federico<br>
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                  <div><span style="font-size: 10pt"
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                      data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt;">Marie Curie
                      Fellow<br>
                      Laboratoire de Physique des Solides<br>
                      Bâtiment 510 - Rue André Rivière<br>
                      91400 Orsay</span></div>
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          Adnan Saqlain" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:saqlain@bilkent.edu.tr"><saqlain@bilkent.edu.tr></a><br>
          <b>Para: </b>"pw forum" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:pw_forum@pwscf.org"><pw_forum@pwscf.org></a><br>
          <b>Enviados: </b>Sábado, 17 de Septiembre 2016 13:25:12<br>
          <b>Asunto: </b>[Pw_forum] calculation of absorption spectrum<br>
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          Dear users<br>
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          I have a system consisting of 94 atoms (periodic with cell
          lengths of <br>
          16.5, 8.5 and 8.7). I want to calculate its absorption
          spectrum. Can <br>
          anyone guide me which technique would be easy to run.
          Actually, we have <br>
          16 core machine and we can run a job for a maximum of 15 days
          only. <br>
          Based upon this time limit, I would like to know which
          technique would <br>
          be suitable. TDDFT or GW?<br>
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          any help in this regards would be highly appreciated.<br>
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          Thanks<br>
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          Adnan<br>
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